Fraud Landis?
Hmm, sounds like dodgy news for the new Tour de France champ.... lets hope it is an anomaly that is explainable by the biochemistry of trained sports people....
During the first semester of last year at uni we covered sport fraud as part of "forensic biology". It was amazing to me how many ways of upping performance in non-legitimate ways exist.... as fast as methods are established for testing, new methods are created and used by people wanting to "achieve" in sports by gleaning an unfair advantage. Not only this, but ways of avoiding being detected too.... some are just plain disgusting, some are physically dangerous.
It is frustrating to find that a person admired has cheated.... not only for other athletes competing, but for the supporters who watch from the sidelines, and perhaps aspire to achieve too. It is also a wonder that sports people who spend sooo long training are willing to potentially damage their bodies by using artificial "boosters".
guess we'll have to wait for the "B" test results, and hope for an explanation.
in other news! after my awful day at the gym on Wednesday i tried to take it easy on Thursday, perhaps I've been pushing myself too hard, or too often, while its so (relatively!) hot. It was annoying, i sooooooo want to be better, but i seem to get stuck at a certain stage for ages before improving. For example, running at 5.5mph (seems so slow to me now!) i couldn't break 10 minutes for weeks, then one day, i ran for 15 minutes without trying... the following couple of weeks i continued to improve and i was easily running 20+ minutes at that speed.
Thats when i decided to improve my speed.....
i figured it'd just be a case of running the same distance at a faster pace, but... at the faster pace i can't seem to do the same distance without needing to walk a bit/drink some water half way through, which seems to cut my motivation somehow.
so today i'm gonna drop back to a 5.8mph pace, and see how it goes from there.... have a nasty feeling i'll want to speed up.
dammit, i will get better!
TaTa, *H*
During the first semester of last year at uni we covered sport fraud as part of "forensic biology". It was amazing to me how many ways of upping performance in non-legitimate ways exist.... as fast as methods are established for testing, new methods are created and used by people wanting to "achieve" in sports by gleaning an unfair advantage. Not only this, but ways of avoiding being detected too.... some are just plain disgusting, some are physically dangerous.
It is frustrating to find that a person admired has cheated.... not only for other athletes competing, but for the supporters who watch from the sidelines, and perhaps aspire to achieve too. It is also a wonder that sports people who spend sooo long training are willing to potentially damage their bodies by using artificial "boosters".
guess we'll have to wait for the "B" test results, and hope for an explanation.
in other news! after my awful day at the gym on Wednesday i tried to take it easy on Thursday, perhaps I've been pushing myself too hard, or too often, while its so (relatively!) hot. It was annoying, i sooooooo want to be better, but i seem to get stuck at a certain stage for ages before improving. For example, running at 5.5mph (seems so slow to me now!) i couldn't break 10 minutes for weeks, then one day, i ran for 15 minutes without trying... the following couple of weeks i continued to improve and i was easily running 20+ minutes at that speed.
Thats when i decided to improve my speed.....
i figured it'd just be a case of running the same distance at a faster pace, but... at the faster pace i can't seem to do the same distance without needing to walk a bit/drink some water half way through, which seems to cut my motivation somehow.
so today i'm gonna drop back to a 5.8mph pace, and see how it goes from there.... have a nasty feeling i'll want to speed up.
dammit, i will get better!
TaTa, *H*
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